The timing could hardly be worse for shoppers. Notebookcheck’s headline put the year-over-year jump in SSD prices at 303% as AI demand squeezes NAND flash. Micron is not struggling, either. It reported record fiscal fourth-quarter revenue of $54.23 billion on September 30, 2026. The…
Kioxia has introduced its LD4 Series of solid-state drives (SSDs), combining the E1.L form factor with eighth-generation BiCS FLASH QLC NAND memory. Designed for high-density 1U servers, the drives offer capacities of 15.36 TB and 30.72 TB, with an architecture validated to support up…
When I was testing a new SSD recently, a colleague asked for some “more practical” benchmarks in addition to the usual CrystalDiskMark and AS-SSD numbers. His idea was straightforward: just run a simple file-copy test. What he didn’t consider, though,…
The Samsung PM9B1 1024GB MZVL41T0HBLB-00BTW is a mid-range PCIe Gen4x4 M.2 SSD in the 2280 form factor. It most likely uses a Samsung controller. Microsoft Surface Pro OLED Copilot+: Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite X1E-80-100 Qualcomm SD X Adreno X1-85 3.8 TFLOPS, 13.00", 0.9 kg External Review » Microsoft Surface Pro OLED Copilot…
The document says offloading large KV Cache datasets to a more cost-effective external storage tier is emerging as a practical approach for scaling inference clusters. It neatly explains how KV Cache works in LLM inference and discusses how NVMe SSDs…
Seagate Technology (NASDAQ: STX) today announced a new interoperability milestone designed to simplify high-capacity storage expansion as AI and cloud workloads drive continued data growth. Seagate Mozaic™ drives, based on heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) and configured with shingled magnetic recording…
The sequence moved fast on the way down. Read timeouts first. Then controller resets that failed. Then the kernel disabled the device. Btrfs went into emergency shutdown, and the model engine exited with the mount effectively gone. Nothing in that…
The EXT4 file-system changes were merged Sunday night for the ongoing Linux 7.4 merge window. The headline feature of EXT4 in this new kernel version is opt-in support for buffered IOmap usage that can lead to "significant" performance improvements for large writes... - Categories…
Windows PCs at the office. We replaced 13 units all at once this year in line with the end of Windows 10 support. Since they were changed from the previous HDDs to SSDs, booting is snappy and comfortable. However, there are times…
Samsung unveiled the pair at Gamescom on August 26, 2026, and early launch coverage led with the 4,000 MB/s headline. That headline is a peak figure. What decides whether a drive feels fast on a long video export or a full-library backup…
PCIe M.2 NVMe storage, lanes, heatsinks, and thermal behavior.
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